So, as I look forward to writing more personal code, I find things like Bespin, which looks really cool. However, it makes me wonder how well I can get it to integrate with a VCS, and with the other IDEs I am working with for offline access. Also the whole system requires that I am able to host my own repository. I know there are publicly available ones, such as Bitbucket but I am just not sure that I want to be using that type of a system. The ability to stop and edit code where-ever I am, when I have some time and ambition, and irrelevant of the machines around me are exciting. I can’t help but admit that I will be giving it a shot on my android, once I have a project setup, though I am not holding my breath that it will work very well.
Category Archives: Geekspeak
Quantity over Quality
So, today I was having a conversation with someone about drinking habits, and their progression over time and age, and I made the statement about learning “quality over quantity”. The funny thing about this is that a little while later I found a sub-process in my brain thinking about the difference between linux distrobutions, and my preference for Apt. That initial decision was because I feel that it is a higher quality package management system than RPM, though I find myself tending to lean more towards Centos recently because it is binary compatible with Redhat, even though it is RPM based, because the support for it is much higher than for the .deb structure of Apt. The irony that I am switching in my package management systems to a “quantity over quality” system is funny to me.
Knoppmyth 5.5 “Bone Marrow” is a huge advancement
When I got up this morning, I went through all the upgrade guides, and change logs, and did my backups. Then I upgraded from R5f27 to 5.5, and I am much happier already. I don’t have it working 100% yet, and there were some glitches, but in all its up and seems to be far superior to the previous version. Get the whole story
K3b wasted my evening
So, I have some plans for some different pieces of computer equipment, and this has caused me to realize that I need to backup my external HD to DVD and reformat it to better use it. It is currently storing about 400Gb of data from OS X, and is formatted HFS+. I went over a couple of different options, and then on a whim figured I would just plug it into my linux box, and see if it would read it. The good news is that it popped right up and is fully readable, I didn’t check if its writable, but I don’t care, as long as I can read it to burn the DVDs from I will be fine. I am a little worried about the files still being readable on a mac after burning them, because I doubt the meta-data will transfer correctly, but thats really only a concern for Apps, which are all inside DMGs as far as I have checked. Get the whole story
Time for the upgrade
Apparently I have been running one of the most insecure versions of WordPress for a long time. I had done a manual install before I had been exposed to fantastico, and the version of WP I was running predated the auto-update features that are present today, and it was still working, so I had neglected to update it. If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it right? Well, anyway, I got a call the other day from Matt, who proceeded to let me in on a little secret. I was apparently being link farmed out to Carnegie Mellon’s CS department’s DB Wiki, which must have been trashed because they have thousands of casino pages up. I won’t provide a link, mostly because I deleted it with extreme prejudice. What had caught me with this was that I had seen those links about a month ago, and had cleaned them out then, expecting that they were embedded in the theme I was using, and I had just never noticed them.
So, after he told me that, (he had been hit on two of his sites as well), I also found a nifty little javascript in the header that was a function that just did character substitution to do a meta redirect to a windowze-antivirus-2008 like dot com site if the referrer was from a search engine, and had an enumerated list in it. Needless to say I eradicated that as well.
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